DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



395 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



LETTUCE. 



Fourteen varieties of this vegetable were grown and they were weighed when in 

 a stage fit for market use. Th weights were taken from fifteen foot drills. 



Variety. 



Giant Crystal Head 



ii ii (seed bed). 



Dark Green Capucine 



Grand Rapids 



Cos Trianon 



Black Seeded Simpson 



Improved Hanson 



Rousseau Blond Winter 



Crisp as Ice 



Unrivalled Summer 



Iceberg 



Wheeler's Tom Thumb 



Red Edged Victoria , 



Planted. 



March 25, 1012 

 29, 1012 

 20, 1912 

 29, 1912 

 20, 1912 

 20, 1012 

 29, 1012 

 20, 1012 

 20, 1012 

 20, 1012 

 20, -912 

 29, 1012 

 29, 1012 



Weights. 



63 pounds. 



60 



51 



45 » 



45 it 



45 



30 



36 



18 



15 ii 



Seeded ear y 



BEANS. 



Seven varieties of beans were grown; they were all harvested in the green bean 

 condition, and the weights were taken from one drill forty feet long. 



Variety. 



Keeney's Rustless Wax. . 



Early Refugee 



Challenge Black Wax . . . 

 Refugee or 1,000 to 1. .. 



Valentine . . 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax 

 Stringless Green Pod 



April 17, 1912 



,- 17, 1912 



,. 17, 1912 



,. 17, 1912 



„ 17, 1912 



,i 17, 1912 



„ 17, 1912 



Weights. 



30 pounds. 



372 « 



30 * 



28 



40 



29-6 h 



32 



ARTICHOKES. 



One variety of this vegetable was grown, and the result was as follows. The 

 weights were taken from one drill sixty feet long, wherein the plants were two feet 

 apart. 



OMOXS. 



Four varieties of these were planted, but the land was not rich enough to grow 

 a good crop of them, and what spoiled our experiment was the moles getting in and 

 rootina out the plants, which made the results of the onions not comparable in 

 any way. 



